In recent past i use to do certain tasks at some scheduled time on the day which also included shutting down one of my machine at 8 PM. Then I came to know that this could be effectively done automatically using cron and so I am discussing cron in this post.

Cron is a daemon which schedules recurring tasks to be executed at a predefined time and date . It is very easy to schedule a job to be run at a particular time using cron. Cron daemon is typically started at boot time and runs continuously in the background.

Ubuntu works the apt-get way and hence makes it easy to install packages on it for confuguring Ubuntu as a DHCP server install the server software using the following command

$ sudo apt-get install dhcp3-server

this would install the required packages

after the package is installed backup the default configuration files using the following

$ sudo cp /etc/default/dhcp3-server dhcp3-server.back

dhcp3-server is a file where you specify the interface DHCP should server (wlan0 in mycase)

edit the file using

$ sudo vim /etc/default/dhcp3-server

change

INTERFACES=””

to

INTERFACES=”wlan0”

(wlan0 might be eth0 or eth1 in your case)

save and close the file

only one more file editing is required now create a backup for mail dhcpd.conf using

$ sudo cp /etc/dhcp3/dhcpd.conf /etc/dhcp3/dhcpd.conf.back

edit the file using

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